A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men have physical needs, and they have emotions. While physical needs are unsatisfied, they take first place; but when they are satisfied,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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